Category: Disability

With the Beast from the East about to hit us for the third time, my body is not loving it. I've been ill and on and off aching or broken boned for the last few months. If you're here for the first time, here's my disability low down. Anyway, this time of year it takes …

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Superdrug. For anyone not in the UK - it's a glorious place. Albeit - the aisles are tight, the lights have a funny yellow hue and my chair has an 80% chance of randomly setting the door alarm off (and yes I always pause at the door to prove I am just as shocked and …

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Right, you be me and I'll be you. I'm in HSBC, I'm on my own about to meet some friends an hour later for dinner in town. I need to get some cash out for my taxis for the week for work. I decide I'm sick of forgetting to get cash each day and opt …

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Today is 'International Day of Persons with Disabilities' and I always like to do a bit of a deeper, personal post on this day. Last year I wrote about the weird questions people ask me as a disabled person. If you didn't catch it, you can read it here. This year I asked on twitter …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFdnomp-rZY&t=1s So this week I found out you can link a video on a post! So here we go, I've not done one in a while - here's a video update about the interactions I've had recently. Being disabled means being talked down to, or people assuming you don't know what you're talking about. So …

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When I announce to people I meet that I've broken over 300 bones, naturally people are shocked, I think I would be too. I mean talk about excessive. I just chuckled at my own joke. Actually announce is probably the wrong word. It's not like I say "I'm Gemma and I've broken over 300 bones" …

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I've had a full on week this week full of events and catching up with friends and it's been glorious. I'm shattered, not because it's been hard physically, but because I've had to deal with the public. I kind of see it like one of those arcade machines with the coins that build up. Each …

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Staring is something I deal with a lot. Most of the time I zone it out because I'm getting on with my day. But sometimes there are moments when you just can't ignore it. When I'm out in public, I hear kids shouting things like "Mummy look at that small girl". This is usually in …

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